Cell phones and other wireless technologies like WiFi have certainly brought convenience and instant accessibility to our lives. It’s hard to imagine how we ever lived without our cell phones, much less walked or drove from point A to… Continue Reading
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Health Risks of Cell Phone Use: Part II
In Cell Phone Hazards: Part I, we discussed the safety standards surrounding cell phone radiation and why they are inadequate to protect us against risk of potential adverse health effects. In this article, we provide more detailed information… Continue Reading
Israel to Require Warning Labels on Cell Phones
As use of wireless devices like cell phones and WiFi explodes, and uncertainty about the safety of these technologies looms, countries like Russia and France have taken an official “better safe than sorry” stance through precautionary legal measures. Some… Continue Reading
Save the Males!
By Devra Davis, PhD, MPH. Memo to men: if you want to father a healthy child, keep your laptop off your lap. As Reuters reported on November 29, a study in the journal Fertility and Sterility has sobering news: sperm from… Continue Reading
Cell Phones and Brain Cancer
By Devra Davis, PhD, MPH. The long awaited World Health Organization Interphone study of more than 5,000 brain tumors that occurred between 2000-2004 and cell phone use failed to deliver a knock-out punch. This thirteen country report found… Continue Reading
Experts Weigh In On Microwave Radiation Health Risks
December 28, 2011 The Economist—and the Truth About Microwave Radiation Emitted from Wireless Technologies In its unsigned commentary on September 3, 2011, “Worrying about Wireless”, The Economist makes a number of technical errors and misleading statements about microwave… Continue Reading
My Wireless Wake-up Call
By Kerry Crofton, PhD. Oh no, you may be thinking, not another dire health warning. Like most people, I often feel fed up with alarming medical news and conflicting studies (one recent report implicated wine as a risk… Continue Reading
Cell Phones Affect Brain Function
With the use of cell phones and other wireless devices on the rise, concerns have been raised about possible associated health risks, especially cancer. Over the years, numerous studies have been conducted to assess relative risk of thermal… Continue Reading
Should WiFi Be Banned In Schools?
On November 1, 2010, Kristin Cassie, principal of Roots and Wings Montessori Place, an independent school in British Columbia, Canada, announced her decision to remove all wireless technology from the school and ban use of cell phones from… Continue Reading
Experts Raise Concerns about Cell Phone Safety to Congress
The first part of this article is dedicated to legislative awareness of the possible health risks associated with cell phones. In the second part, we’ll tell you about consumer-protective bills that concerned legislators have begun introducing, often against… Continue Reading